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Show DAILY 4 UTAH STATE JOURNAL SOME INTERESTING UTAH STATE JOURNAL. NEGRO TUESDAY, JULY 1 1904. HEPPNER AGAIN SALT LAKE AND VICINITY OGDEN, UTAH. FRANK J. CANNON, EDITOR. THE UNLAWFUL TRUSTS. The Democratic national platform speaks in no uncertain tones in regard to unlawful combinations which are known as trusts, and which have been fostered and protected by the Republican adminstrations until they have become a menace to individual enterprise, threatening, unless restrained, to concentrate the entire business of the country under the control of a very few men and giving them a power surpassing that wielded by any for eign price or potentate. The plank in the platform says: We recognize that the gigantic trusts and combinations designed to enable capital to secure more than its just share of the joint product of capital and labor, and which have been fostered and promoted under Republican rule, are a menace to beneficial competition and an obstacle to permanent business pros- perity. We demand vigorous and impartial enforcement of the laws already made to prevent and control both trusts and combinations, and we favor such further legislation in restraint thereof as experience shows to be necessary. Corporations chartered by authority of the people must forever remain subject to regulation in the interest of the people. A private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable. We recognize the right of capital in all legitimate lines of enterprise to combine for the increase of business, for enlarging productive capacity and for the decreasing of the cost of produc-ductio- n, but when such combination in its purpose, or effect, creates or tends to create a monopoly in its production to restrain trade, or to stifle competition, to increase cost to the consumer, or to control the market, it violates the spirit of our laws, become inimical to public welfare and peace and should be so regulated, controlled or prohibited by law as to amply protect the public interests. We demand that the restraint of such illegal combinations be entrusted to the Democratic party, which is not responsible for their existence, and which has ever protested against their continuance. We condemn the Republican system of legislation under which trust monopolies are enabled to exact higher prices for their manufactured products from our own people than they sell them for abroad. THE MYSTERY OF EVIL. Wayne MacVeagh, the celebrated lawyer, writes the following to the New York Sun: It is with hesitation that I venture to discuss any subject which has been discussed d as Goldwin by one so wise and so Smith, who has never, so far as I am aware, written a word which he need wish to blot. For my own part I cannot see the slightest difficulty in reconciling the General Slocum disaster with my belief in God or with my duty of obedience to that moral law which Christ so insistenly urges us to obey. Given a material universe such as that in which we live, surely we must expect physi-sa- l consequences, however regrettable, to result from adequate physical causes. That fire will burn wood and other combustible substances is the experience of every day; and our profound sorrow that in this instance so many lives were lost, by fire doing what it always does, has no relation whatever to my religious faith so far as lean see. We daily surround ourselves with grave and new perils to life; but they are perils due wholly to well known physical causes, and which we encounter more or less willingly, for the sake of some supposed material pleasure or material advantage. If the laws of the physical world, which we thus put at hazard, cause a great calamity, Ido not see how we can fairly lay the blame upon Providence. Wholly different from the physical world Is the moral universe, where moral influences produce moral results. To refrain from stealing, however disguised, is a healthy moral influence for nations as for men; as is also the kindred obligation, also binding upon nations as upon men, to do to others as you would would wish them to do to you. The older I become the more certain 1 am that disobedience to the moral law inevitably results in the moral degradation alike of nations and of men, while their obedience to it will as inevitably result in their moral elevation. We are, of course, incapable of knowing, in our present life, why we were placed in a material universe we inhabit and subjected to such physical laws as govern it; but for that knowledge I am quite willing to wait, as for the solution of other similar problems, for that day of illumination which is not very distant from any of us. high-minde- The party SWEPT BY FLOOD A bulletin recently issued by the federal census bureau devoted to an analysis of negro statistics by Professor Wilcox, is of peculiar interest to the people of the United States. Waters Destroyed Cattle The most important fact brought to Rushing and Crops But No Lives Are light by a close investigation of the census Reported Lost, figures of 1900, is that the negro population is not increasing as rapidly as the white population. Reduced to exact percentage, it is found HEPPNER. July 12. This twon, that the white population of the Southern which lust yearOr,was wiped out by a states during the past twenty years, in- cloudburst, again suffered, but In a creased 56.5 per cent; whereas the negro in- smaller extent, last night. Many crease was only 33.1 per cent. In 1900 the buildings In the business section were negro inhabitants of the United States, in- either swept away or damaged. Tbe the aame course cluding Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico, num- water took exactly town. The railroad ! bered 9,204,531. There were then 8,833,994 through the burled under many feet of debrie. The negroes in the United States proper, or 11.6 Inhabitants were warned by the terrific wind and sought shelter on the per cent of the total population. Of course, the superior percentage of hillside. No lives were lost unless farwhite increase in the South is not to bettri-bute- d ther downwerthe valley. There apparently three differto the superior fecundity of the white-race-, ent cloudbursts. The first raised a but to immigration. At the same time and cattleBhrdluetaohrdlur sthaloaete the negro race has lost by emigration to the wave but a few feet high, thus warnThe second was North. The negro birth rate is higher than ing the asInhabitants. The great as last year. nearly that of the Caucasian, but this is counter- crops and cattle In the valley for miles have been destroyed. balanced by his excessive death rate. The were many narrow escapee. The Ther of numerical domination has negro bugaboo Is destroyed for a distance of vanished forever, and every year that adds to railway twelve miles. Two persons are rethe increase of the white population of the ported missing. Southern states by immigration makes the July 12. A private negro less and less of economic and political SHANIKO, Or, that a eloudhi.rat last factor. The inferior vitality of the negro messagesweptsaysaway Mitchell, fifty miles night is conclusively shown by the fact that half of from here. Two lives are known to be the negroes in the United States are under lost. The list may be heavily Increas19 years of age. For the whites the medium ed. A courier from the vicinity says that a great wall of water swept down line 23 years of age. toward the town from above. All The statistical demonstration of such cmmunicatlons have been destroyed. facts is reassuring to the future of this great Twenty eight houses and several barns wer destroyed at MltchelL The section and justifies the belief that the known dead are Mrs. Bethune, aged race problem will, in time, solve itself. 90, and Martin Smith, aged 91. It is better for the negro as well as the white race that this is so, for, once he ceases to be HOOD RIVER, Or, July 12. A terrific wind storm this morning In regarded as a peril, his progress and oppor- this section did great damage to crops tunities will increase, and increased education and buildings were unroofed. The big WIFE ELOPED WITH William Turpin of Salt Lake, who swore to complaints yesterday charging hia wife, Bertha Turpin, and Eugene Gates with adultery, tella the old, old story of misplaced confidence. Turpin says that he took Gates Into his home about four months ago and treated him as a friend. He was greatly surprised and shocked upon returning home yesterday morning after a week's absence to find his wife and child gone with the man he had befriended. YOUNG DEMOCRATS HAVE FINE CLUB ROOMS The Young Men's Democratic club has taken a lease on a suite of five rooms on the ground floor of the Atlas The rooms, block in Salt Lake. through the action of President Samuel Newhouse, will be magnificently furnished. Mr. Newhouse yesterday asked the committee what had been done In the way of furnishing the rooms. He was told the committee contemplated the expenditure of a few hundred dollars. Now, don't do that," he said. "Do the thing right. Go to the furniture store and pick out some nice furniture and have the bill sent to me." A scheme of furnishing that called for the payment of about 82,000 to the furniture man was later submitted to Mr. Newhouse. who marked it O. K." without ii moment's hesitation. forty-- five will remove his political disabilities. river steamer Spencer waa wrecked on a bar in the Columbia river and That the negro has made decided educawill be a total loss. The passengers tional progress, is shown by this census were panic stricken, but all were resbureau bulletin. For the decade ending in cued with difficulty. The waves on 1900 the percentage of negro illiterates was the river were ten feet high. but 48 against 60.7 for the preceding decade. WERE SNOWED UNDER. A reduction of 21 per cent speaks volumes for the South a cause to which the white taxd Boyle Furniture Baseball Team payers of the South are very largely by the Z. C. M. I. ar it!" v try listening to a play with your The Boyle Furniture company's baseball team met defeat yesterday at the handa of the Z. C. M. L team by a score of 8 to 0, In a pretty game. The latter team played a splendid game snd their victory was never In danger. They backed their pitcher, Flygare, In fine style and he had a world of speed and fine control. Hie pitching waa too much for the Furniture boys and they were compelled to take kindly to his delivery. The feature of the game was a three-bas- e hit by Bell of the Z. C. M. L and the catching of Herrick of the same team. The Furniture boys gave their pitcher poor support and were weak In team work. The score by Innings: mouth shut? The alienee that followed waa ng Tha Timetable Habit Hotel clerks and others who handle timetables In the bulk are responsible for the statement that the New York public has the timetable habit Every commuter who already knows to the fraction of a second the time of tha arrival and departure of the train on hla road carries a timetable. People who do not even commute, but ride up and down town In street cars, pore over little timetables and figure out the hour and minute they will start if they get a chance to go to the part of the country they would like to visit As for those who really long trips, no fewer than a bagful of timetables will keep them straight N. Y. Letter. 1 2 S 4 5 The chairman of the new national Demo- Z. C. M. I. 8 10 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 cratic committee has not yet been selected,but Boyle F. Co and probably Thomas Taggart of Indiana will be Batteries Z. C. F.M. I, Flygare Poulter and Co, Treaeder; Boyle the man named to succeed Senator Jones of Evan. Chairman Arkansas, the retiring chairman. Jones, after consultation with Judge Parker CAME NEAR BEING DROWNED. and having ascertained bis wishes, will call a meeting of the committee to be held in New Two Warner Boys Are Rescued From the Weber River. York. The new committee met Sunday and unanimously indorsed the candidacy of Mr. Two of the little sons of Mrs. H. G. Taggart. The temporary chairman of the St. Louis convention was impertinent; at any rate, that is what the Republicans pretend to believe. Alluding to the remark of the permanent chairman of the Republican convention that the Democrats killed trusts with wind and the Republican party with law, Mr. Williams earnestly asked: "Where are the corpses?" And echo answered Where?" 1 Warner came near losing their lives in the Weber river yesterday. One of them had gone In swimming and had evidently cramped and an elder brother observing him go under went to his assistance. He was bringing him to shore when the little fellow entangled his legs with those of his rescuer and thus prevented him from swimming. Both of them sank, but the cries of friends and their own struggles attracted the attention of a man who was passing and he rescued them from their perilous position. 8UNDAY EXCURSION. Tibet itself is a country which has been To Salt Lake City, July 17th, via described tersely as a cross between Sahara Between the Rio Grande Western railway. Fare and Siberia, says the World. 81 for the round trip. Special train barrenness of the land and the fierce fanati- leaves Ogden 9:80 p. m.; returning, cism of its dirty people, the British will find it leaves Salt Lake 8:30 p. m. and 11:50 a thorny pathway over which they choose to p. m. carry the white man's burden." which was organized at Jack-so- n The solidity of the Southern states for July 6, 1854, and assumed the name Relike of no more the the was the Democratic candidate for president was party publican, present day bearing that name than is Theo- absolutely assured by the resolution in the dore Roosevelt like the illustrious Abraham Republican platform threatening a reopening I of the question of negro rule. Lincoln of sainted memory. r A machine has I Invented which. It Is claimed, will i of the crop and the wi of twenty-eigh- t men. In the co sone 25,000,000 acres are devoted and the average y fell Miss Laurine Bcudder of',! during the electrical storm shiV" ! most cost her the sight of She had gone to spend the eve? at the residence of Juliu Ki Wall avenue and was n ble In company with the Mis, sel during the storm. Suddenly Id flash of lightning cam, and for'" moment all were dazed. Then Mu! Scudder complained of not being gj to open one eye and that it pained ,! though it were filled with nwdl Medical aid was summoned and the Injured member was attended to Dr. Brick who today stated that th! young lady would not lose the sight of her eye although It would cause trouble. It Is supposed that the sudden and sharp bolt of lightning struck the elec-trwires of the house, descending wire and throwing off a bolt of electricity which struck the young lady. ie Jewels on an Idol. The Jewels of an Indian idol must be worth stealing If many of thou remarkably hideous images pn..M such valuable head ornaments u on made for the idol Parthasathy, jn Tripllcane temple at Madras The ornament la worth some 50,000 rupees and la made of r .'verelgn gold, studded with diamonds, emeralds and rubles the largest emerald being valued at 1,000 rupees and the biggest ruby and diamond at 800 rupees apiece. Would Have It in the Spring. "Dock Squires was a queer old yarb doctor of decidedly limited education, who flourished In New England a good many years ago. One day some one said to him: See here. Dock, have you any diploma? Well, no; I ain't got none on hand just now, but Im going to dig some soon as the ground throws out In the spring." October Lipplnootts. Atchison pfd IMS Bmelter com 97 Smelter pfd Alton com Baltimore A Ohio. Wj 50I Brooklyn Canadian Pse 125ja Met. Traction.... 111';! Che. A Ohio Rio Grande com.. 22 W6 Con. Gas People's Gas Erie Illinois Central . . UHI 1S1(? Manhattan Kansas A Texas... asq . cotton-growin- Is 10,827.000 bales of 500 pounds e worth $425,000,000. Norfolk A West... Ontario A West. . F, 1M Pennsylvania US Reading Rock Island tf. Southern Pacific.. com. Southern By 2$ St. Paul t; L S,Kr Tennessee Coal... w Union Pacific H Steel coin Steel pfd Western Tnlon Wabash nfil CHICAGO GRAIN AND PORK. September Delivery. Wheat Corn .. Sfi I Oats H Pork nbl.. :.Si STOCKS NEW YORK CHICAGO GRAIN net We depend on onr eommlsslons, ,nr customers' losses, for our profits,in rhe only strictly commission house tha state. OGDEN BROKERAGE CO. ALBERT F. RICHEY Jnbertaker Phone 150 Open 'Jp Day and 2372 Washington &Qght. UTAHNA PARR STRICTLY A TEMPERANCE RESORT. THE WEEK 'OF JULY MR. AND MRS. AL. PLEAU Society Sketch. j PROF. RUIZ Spanish Violinist. TRACEY & TRACEY Courtship at Cowslip Farm. E. R. GOURLEY'S UTAHNA-O-SCOP- Dancing POSITIVELY 11 MISS VESTA MONTROSA Illustrated Song. SMITH & CLIFFORD Burlesque Boxers. UTAHNA STOCK COMPANY-- In a farce comedy entiled "The Wrong Mrs Appleton." GREAT PASSION PLAY. at the New Pavilion THE FINEST FLOOR Prices of Admission IN THE STATE. Adults, 10c; Children, cotton-picke- one-thir- d 1 NEW YORK White-wuhf- five-inni- i, 1 A Wiae Prescription. Mrs. Blank met her family physician on Broad street the other day, and, si ii her custom, began to pour out her woea. Oh! doctor, ahe aald, Tm completely exhausted; can scarcely KILLED BY A FALL. walk. What shall I take?" Uml-ai- d the doctor, meditatively, tm Charles Kendall .aged 50 years, was killed late yesterday afternoon at Salt might take a car. Lake by falling from the platform of Notice of Apartments to Let a traveler that carries stone at the A white card on a Parisian dwelling yard of George Curley. He died forty house indicates that furnished aparminutes after the falL The man fell tments are to let. A yellow rard ina distance of eighteen leet onto the forms pedestrians that unfurnished railroad track below, fracturing hla rooms may be had. The object is to tave pasaersby the trouble of crossing skull and breaking both arms. the street If they chance to be on tbs At the Play. apposite side, In case such rooms u The young man had seen the play thy rlosl-- e are net advertised. before. He let everybody for four seats around him know that, he kept CLOSING QUOTATIONS OF telling just what waa coming, and how STOCKS funny it would be when It did come. At length he aald: "Did you ever try listening to a play Co. with your eyes shut? Youve no Idea Furnished by the Ogden Brokerage 215. h Phone 370 Twenty-fiftSt.; how queer It seems." A middle aged man with a red face at Just In front He twisted himself Tuesday, July 1 1904. about In hla aeat and glared at the Louisville AX... .11,' i Colo. F. 4 I young man. Missouri Pacillc .. W, .... Copper "Young man, aald he, "did you ever Aten Ison com mr New York Cent... Us so-call- ed The Anaconda Standard: Too old for it? Not for a minute! Moses was older than Davis is when he made the Red-se- a crossing and started his forty-yeMoses campaign. even composed a stirring campaign songlatein life. Noah was six hundred years old when he got his first intimation about the flood and became the living worlds captain. The Bible says so; and the Bible also remarks that, during his eventful career in public life, 'the Lord remembered Noah.' Will He be less mindful, this year, of the patriarchal West Virginians campaign for second place? Dont vou think FRIEND HER HUSBAND'S Miss Laurin. Scudd.r Blinded Flash of Lightning. That la xactlr why ws do tha Tailoring Basinas of Ogdan. Anderson 5c |